Milking



(No Model.)

A. G. TRACY. 'MILKING PAIL,

o. 255,702. Patented Ma1n28, 1 882 i ll N PETERS. Phomillhngnpher. Wmhingmn, D. C.

PATENT Felon.

ARZA O. TRAQY, OF LONE BOOK, VVISCONS IN.

- MILKINGPPAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,702, dated March 23, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knJwn that I, ARZA O. TRACY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Lone Rock,in the eountyof Richland and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Milking-Pails; and [do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the samc,ret'- erencc being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which formapaitof this specification.

i nafter fully set forth. The accompanying drawings, in which Fig- My invention relates to milking-pails; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of strainers placed in the cover, as will be here;

flange c is the cloth strainer 0.

Application filed August 29, 1881. (No model.)

is placed the flange b,'which may be made flaring, if desired. Upon the under side of the cover is secured the flange 0, which is of larger diameter than the flange b. Placed within the flange b, and resting upon a narrow rim of the cover projecting within the flange, is the wire strainer d. Stretched across the top of the It is held in place within the flange by the circular wire springf, as shown.

O is a trap placed in the side of the cover,

and which, when the pail is full, may be opened and the milk poured out.

By this arrangement of strainers I secure a pail into which no foreign substances can penetrate, and the milk coming from it will be perfectly free from all impurities.

What I claim as new is- A combination wire and cloth strainer arranged within the. flanges b and c of a milkpail cover, and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ARZA OUTLAR TRACY.

\Vitnesses:

A. W. TOWSLEY, Jr., W. W. RUNYAN. 

